secrets-detection skillA
secrets-detection is agent-read markdown (skill) from habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers: Use when auditing a project for secrets committed to source control, setting up gitleaks, or hardening the "No secrets in source" harness constraint — covers scanning, baselining, configuration, and CI integration.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
# Secrets Detection Audit ## Overview Secrets in source code — API keys, tokens, passwords, private keys — are one of the most common and most damaging security failures. A single committed secret can grant an attacker access to production systems, and git history means the secret persists even after the file is deleted. Gitleaks is a SAST tool that scans git repositories for secrets using regex and entropy-based detection. It catches common patterns (AWS keys, GitHub tokens, private keys, connection strings) and supports custom rules via `.gitleaks.toml`. **Critical rule: Never assume a file is secret-free from visual inspection. Run the scanner. Encoded, split, or templated secrets are invisible to human review.** --- ## Audit Checklist ### For every project - [ ] Gitleaks is installed and available on the path - [ ] `gitleaks detect` runs cleanly against the current working directory - [ ] Git history has been scanned (`gitleaks detect` without `--no-git`) - [ ] A `.gitleaks.toml` exists if the project has known false positives - [ ] Gitleaks runs in CI and fails the build on findings - [ ] The HARNESS.md "No secrets in source" constraint is set to …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/secrets-detection@git:20260415.bb944bamdr add habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/secrets-detection@sha256:34ac1a4eb4a4f794Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_yjktbqeluob5xhec)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260415.bb944ba latest | 2026-04-15 | bb944ba | 8,907 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260406.f087f0e | 2026-04-06 | f087f0e | 8,902 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8907 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers · 106 stars · license NOASSERTION · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yjktbqeluob5xhec GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=habitat-thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers/secrets-detection GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/34ac1a4eb4a4f794d7293e8a759d039eea8595f91935b19c83fe1f3fedaa8c3c
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